Landing in kazakhstan, i was back in my dormitory in star city. Every 15 minutes, someone would come in and job a needle or give me a cap to fill. My a cup to fill. My mission went well. My capsule is now on display, along with the shuttle. You can see some good stuff there. The shuttle and concorde, that is back when we were taking some risks. I feel it is unfortunate we are not taking those kind of risks to advance not just space, but aviation in general. It reminds you help will and innovative we once were. Would i do it again . In a heartbeat. I loved it. If you want to read anymore, i have a book on the internet called by any means neccessaryy. Thank you for coming. I will do questions or you can eat. On october 12, 2008, Richard Garriott launched aboard a shuttle to the International Space station as a selffunded astronaut. He returned 12 days later. He became the First American to be a secondgeneration space traveler, following in his fathers footsteps. In october he talked abou
Thank you. I realize i stand between you and lunch. So im going to try to blow through the presentation and do any questions. People ask me where i get the idea to go into space. Then we will get to eat. People ask me where i get the idea to go into space. I am not a professional astronaut. Had a lot of training in that area. About 11 years ago, i was sitting in a starbucks in princeton, new jersey. I read his story about how the Russian Space agency would take private people into space. It was just one of these wow moments. You are not a big planner or thinker. You want to do something, you go and do it. That is what got me to go into space. As you know, the original idea of the show was to take the average person up and let them experience space. Because of the accidents, that was cut out. The only way a private person like me could go up is via the Russian Space agency. Though i am not a trained astronaut, you cannot hop on a rocket and go up. Theres a lot of training required. I sp
That will be our show for today. We will take you live to the center for strategic and international studies. The program is about to begin. What Congress Must do to sustain our position across the pacific. Ok `no audio good morning. Happy new year. Happy year of the sheep. I am mike green. Thank you for coming. Tomorrow, Congress Comes into session. We face a new world in washington. A Republican Congress. Democratic president s. So far, on issues from immigration to cuba policy, there are signs that the new congress and the white house will be colliding politically and on policy. What we want to do today is spotlight one area where bipartisan cooperation forming an agenda to move forward is not only possible but necessary. That is on policy towards the asia pacific region. In washington, it is probably one of the areas of most bipartisan collaboration. We want to spotlight issues, and actions that members of congress can do to move forward. A majority of americans consider asia to be
Former congressman bob ney. In a chapter headlined pretty alice, you called pretty alice the most covert, manipulative, cunning, stealth vicious coldhearted instrument of evil that karl rove and the Bush Administration had. What is pretty alice . Alice fisher is a very interesting person that received attention from senator levin in particular and that basically went away as i explain in the book. But alice fisher had never particularly tried cases and was criticized for that. She was in the Criminal Division 2001 to 2003. Went over to work for chertoff. An extreme political optrative and in the bushcheney campaign i dont want to call her a political hack but ill say political hack. She then was up for appointment when Alberto Gonzales was attorney general for the United States. Ran afoul of senator levin and the reason it did is because he said a, she was close to tom delays defense team. She had dealings with his defense team. B, she didnt have a lot of experience trying cases, was g
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